Bangladesh recorded 43 new coronavirus-related deaths in a 24-hour period until 8:00am Saturday, pushing the local death tally to 12,801.
With 1,447 new cases during this period, the country’s caseload soared to 8,09,314.
The overall infection rate stood at 13.41 per cent as the mortality rate went up to 1.58 per cent, the Directorate General of Health Services said in a press release.
Meanwhile, the recovery rate went up to 92.60 per cent.
Bangladesh reported its first coronavirus cases on March 8, 2020 and the confirmed the first Covid-19 related death on March 18.
A nationwide lockdown is in force to tackle the spread of the virus and it is scheduled to continue until June 6.
Besides the lockdown, some stricter measures are also taken in a number of bordering districts to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 after the Delta variant of Covid, better known as Indian variant, spread across India.
Eighty per cent of the Covid-19 patients in Bangladesh have the Indian variant, also known as the Delta variant, found a study.
The first dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was administered on 58,20,015 people while 42,03,136 people got its second dose.
Till Friday, 2,162 people got the first jab of Sinopharm vaccine.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December 2019. The virus went on to affect the entire world, putting the global economy into the worst recession since the Great Depression, according to IMF.
